Micha Kaufman
Analyst · Citi
Thank you, Brian. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Q3 was another strong quarter as we continued to accelerate our revenue growth and drive EBITDA margin expansion. Both revenue and adjusted EBITDA came at the top-end of our guidance range. A number of factors drove the strong performance. The cohorts in our core marketplace continue to stabilize from the COVID growth spikes and our push upmarket has allowed us to grow spend per buyer at a strong pace. Finally, healthy growth in our value-added services contributed to our take rate of over 31%. All of this was extremely well executed with continued expense discipline, which is reflected in the strong delivery of our adjusted EBITDA margin. These results underscore the power of our business model and the progress we are making to solidify our position as the global leader of freelancing marketplaces. This, together with the strength and resilience of the Fiverr team, allows us to focus, adapt and thrive amid external changes. As you all know, Israel went through a horrific attack a month ago. Our first priority has been to help our employees, their families, and the Fiverr community, and support those the deadly attacks impacted. As some of our employees are being called up, we are ensuring their families will get what they need while they are on the front lines. As a company, we are quickly adapting so that we continue to operate and execute at the highest level of focus and consistency, thanks to our hybrid operation that's already in place. Since we laid out our strategic focus this year, to strengthen our core marketplace and accelerate our pace to push upmarket, we have been working on knocking down barriers that prevent buyers from shopping more often and fulfilling more complex projects. We know that Fiverr's unique transaction model and global access to talent provide great convenience and access to our customers that are unmatched anywhere else. But there are also pain points, such as the difficulty of finding the best talent among so many choices, the uneasiness when a project is only partially scoped or the headache when a project requires coordination between multiple freelancers. This is why we created products such as Fiverr Neo, Fiverr Enterprise and the project planning service in Fiverr Pro to address those issues. The vision for Fiverr Neo is quite wild. We imagine Neo will serve as a personalized recruiting expert that can help our customers more accurately scope their projects and get matched with freelance talent, just like a human recruiter, only with more data and more brain power. What we have done so far is leveraging the existing LLM engines to allow customers to express their project needs in natural language, which Neo will synthesize and define the scope before matching the client with a short list of choices pulled from the entire Fiverr freelance database. It's a substantial step forward from the existing experience and streamlines the time the customer needs to make an informed decision. To improve the experience further, we continue incorporating cutting-edge technology into our production to advance the algorithm and provide a much faster processing speed. We already see thousands of customers utilizing the service, and early results show a positive impact on match quality and delivery. On the Fiverr Business Solutions side, we are targeting higher-end customers, expanding our wallet share, and expanding our product suite to accommodate more use cases that are sometimes difficult to execute through a typical marketplace order. When a customer comes through the funnel without a well-defined project scope, sometimes they need a domain expert to help carry out a specific function of the business, say a social media marketing expert. Sometimes they have a vaguely scoped project with an evolving roadmap, say building a complex mobile app. In both cases, they are looking for a freelancer to engage for an extended period of time. This is where Fiverr Enterprise comes in. Through Fiverr Enterprise, clients can manage an ongoing engagement with a pool of freelance talent, continuously updated tasks and project milestones, and ongoing budget management and payment tools. This allows us to address the freelancing needs of larger businesses that otherwise might be stuck with the complexity of creating detailed scopes for open-ended goals at the beginning of a project. Finally, in Fiverr Pro, we are seeing great traction for the newly introduced Project Partner service. Since its launch last year, we've seen many business customers utilizing the service to fulfill significantly larger projects. We've further expanded the offering to include separate project planning and project management services to cater to a wider range of businesses. The project planning offering is a popular option among customers who need help with scoping and staffing, and we have found that most customers who use the project planning capabilities end up utilizing the full project management capabilities as well. As you can see, there have been a lot of exciting developments at Fiverr this year. Leveraging the flywheel of our marketplace built over the years, we are taking our business to the next level with new products and services that cater to a wider range of customers and their needs. There is tremendous potential for us to expand our customer base and grow their wallet share with us, and we should be able to build on these opportunities in the years ahead. With that, I'll turn the call now to Ofer, who will walk you through our financial highlights.